Yew
Field Notes — No. 10
Yew
17th September 2026
I know that this probably didn't start off as wild and it's certainly not a rare find but every year I want to capture the matt, almost velvet beauty of yew berries which aren't in fact
Fungi finds of Autumn 2026
Field Notes
Fungi Log
Autumn 2026
Fungi finds of Autumn 2026
Giant Polypore
14 September
Facts
Latin: Meripilus giganteus
Size: Rosettes to 50cm+
Habitat: Base of beech/oak
Note: Pale flesh bruises black within minutes
Oysterling
14 September
Facts
Latin: Crepidotus sp.
Size: Cap 1-6cm
Habitat: Dead twigs, broadleaf
My diary - 1
Week Notes
10-14 September 2026
10Thursday
Meeting with resident in her home. Tea with sweeteners and a mini roll. Glad that one of my asks has been taken up
11Friday
Remembering: John was in Paris. I left several hysterical voicemail messages, which he didn't or couldn'
A first-time spot on our evening walk
Field Notes
No. 09
Badger
12th September 2026
Fergus spotted it, stopped and stared, as is his normal inter-species opening gambit. I thought it was just a fox but when I looked I could not believe that I was finally seeing a badger in the flesh and from their
Five
9th September 2026
Tonight, across two scrutiny committees, I broke my question duck. (What does that even mean?)
break one’s duck
/breɪk wʌnz dʌk/ verb phr.
1. Cricket. To score one’s first run after a period of scoring none.
2. Of a councillor: to ask, at long last,
I've got your back
Blogpost
I've got your back
By Gita Bapat Wednesday 9th September 2026
I reiterate: this is not supposed to be a misery memoir but this thing is on my overthinking mind and I need to park it somewhere. I have two Council Committee sessions this evening and I
Not quite the bare necessities
Sculthorpe
5 · IX · 2026
The Meadows Farm Shop
5th September 2026
Strawberries, highland cattle greetings cards, an emergency galvanised bucket for sunflowers. Find them here.
20 years on
Gita Bapat
Wednesday 2nd September 2026
Did he know that I was there by his bedside? They say that your hearing is the last sense to go so I kept talking, just in case, but he didn’t answer and then, when we’d all stepped out, deliberating whether to
The Poppy Line at Weybourne
Weybourne
31 · VIII · 2026
Weybourne
31st August 2026
We'd been hearing about the little train that runs from Holt to Sheringham for a while, and today was a chance to hop on board. The railway has been celebrating a Festival of Rails programme of summer events this week,
A seasonal tide
Field Notes
No. 08
Moon jelly
29th June 2026
At a glance
SpeciesMoon Jellyfish
Latin nameAurelia aurita
FamilyUlmaridae
SizeDiameter 5–40cm
HabitatCoastal waters worldwide; the most common jellyfish in UK seas
Key facts
* Recognisable by four horseshoe-shaped gonads visible through the translucent bell
* Its sting is too weak to
Thornham
THORNHAM
27 · VIII · 2026
Thornham
27th August 2026
Thornham has become one of my very favourite Norfolk places and I visit whenever I can. It needs a dedicated post for the light, the air, the usual wonderfully bleak isolation that pulls me back summer, or winter. So here is a
Berry walk
Field Notes
No. 07
Hawthorn, Dog rose, Elderberry, Bryony, Hops
26th August 2026
The end of summer is showing Nature's full abundance just in our local walk this morning.
There are so many berries around that I wonder whether walkers are leaving them for the wild creatures who